After days of uncertainty, Nitish Kumar broke ties with the Opposition INDIA alliance and has again joined hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), marking his fifth flip-flop in a decade. The Janata Dal United (JDU) has officially severed ties with the Congress party, blaming them for the collapse of the INDIA alliance.
Party spokesperson KC Tyagi accused the Congress of attempting to hijack the leadership of the coalition. He alleged that Congress conspired with Trinamool’s Mamata Banerjee to “steal the leadership” of the alliance.
Like in the past, when Notish similarly switched camps, he evaded appearing in the public to clarify doubts, remained unreachable to his allies who attempted to contact him multiple times, and focused solely on mapping out the contours of the deal with the saffron party ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.Ā
The architect of the Bihar caste survey, he was the one who provided the basic template for the Oppositionās caste census call and social justice pitch against the BJP in 2024. Nitish was also the one who chaired the first meet of the Opposition (INDIA) bloc in Patna in June 2023.